书目名称 | Self-focusing: Past and Present |
副标题 | Fundamentals and Pro |
编辑 | Robert W. Boyd,Svetlana G. Lukishova,Y.R. Shen |
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概述 | Enormous potential audience of professionals working with lasers and laser beam propagation in various media need knowledge about self-focusing effects.Impressive experiments involving femtosecond sel |
丛书名称 | Topics in Applied Physics |
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描述 | .Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications. ..From a practical point of view, self-focusing effects impose a limit on the power that can be transmitted through a material medium. Self-focusing also can reduce the threshold for the occurrence of other nonlinear optical processes. Self-focusing often leads to damage in optical materials and is a limiting factor in the design of high-power laser systems. But it can be harnessed for the design of useful devices such as optical power limiters and switches. At a formal level, the equations for self-focusing are equivalent to those describing Bose-Einstein condensates and certain aspects of plasma physics and hydrodynamics. There is thus a unifying theme between nonlinear optics and these other disciplines...One of the goals of this book is to connect the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filament-ation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recen |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Dispersion; condensed matter; design; diffraction; dynamics; history; interference; laser; long filaments; mo |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34727-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-2181-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-34727-1Series ISSN 0303-4216 Series E-ISSN 1437-0859 |
issn_series | 0303-4216 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2009 |